The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
I was very sad to read of the death of Maartin Alcock yesterday. I new him
when I used to hang out with various Fairport people many years ago. He was a
kind and gentle fellow with a magnificent talent. He shall be greatly
missed.
I first heard Suede about a quarter of a century ago when Steve Harley gave
me a copy of their first album, saying that some people compared it to early
Cockney Rebel records. I liked it immediately, although I didn't - and still
don't - get the Cockney Rebel reference. They have a new album out today, and it
is the best one they have produced for years, possibly since their 1995
masterpiece Dog Man Star. I sincerely recommend people to check it out. On just
a few listenings it is up there with the best of this year's releases.
Corinna - thank God - continues to be pain free, and although she has
intermittent discomfort is doing rather well. She is not #scheduled to go back
into hospital until the beginning of so we can carry on as normal as much as we
can. Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. I am convinced
that the barrage of love and blessings you have sent us so far has borne
remarkable results.
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have
sold six whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I
will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium.
Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't
I?
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
FAIRPORTSTUFF
THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Maartin Allcock RIP
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Osibisa - The Dawn
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AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #303-4
THE BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS MARCHING UP AND DOWN AGAIN ISSUE
In another fantastically fab issue, Alan goes to Kozfest, John goes to see
Devon Allman, Graham discusses the departure of Mr Dibs from Hawkwind, Jon and
Graham try to buy opioids with comedy results, Jon talks about Paul McCartney,
and a kid's fantasy writer froim yesteryear, the Raz Band wow LA, and Doug goes
to see Yes feat. ARW.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, AND there is a columns from Kev Rowlands, but all sorts of
folk including Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard and the irrepressible
Corinna AND Mr Biffo are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK,
nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with
regards their footwear, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with
OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY
FREE!!!
This issue features:
kaolin and morphine, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Amy Winehouse, Ozzy
Osbourne, Bart, Alan Parsons, Elton John, Lenny Kravitz, The RAZ Band, Richard
Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Anna Karabessini, Malcolm James McCormick "Mac Miller", Wilson Moreira, Liz
Fraser, Burton Leon Reynolds Jr., Elisa Serna, Conway Victor Savage, Randy
Weston, Michael "Mike" A. Kennedy, Rene Garcia, Donald McGuire, Richard Bateman,
Helen Shepherd, Fenella Fielding, OBE, Johnny Strike, Man, Binky Womack, Rick
Wakeman, Essra Mohawk, Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun, Doug Harr, Cruise to the
Edge, ARW, Yes, Alan Dearling, Kozfest, The Dials, Thom the World Poet, John
Brodie-Good, The Devon Allman Project, Allman Brothers Band, Duane Betts, Kev
Rowland, Widow's Peak, Witch Casket, Superstition, Robert Reed, Tom Newman, Les
Penning, Diane Marino, Diane Moser, Jan Edwards, Hawkwind, Mr Dibs, Jon Downes,
Coldharbour Diaries, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Edward Eager
And the last few issues are:
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown kittens, one
totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she
squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown
cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. He is ably
assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly
mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we
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